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Rethinking Global Political Economy contains incisive analysis of
history, linguistics, class, culture, empirical data and normative
concerns. This important volume presents innovative approaches to
fundamental issues in global political economy. Together they
provide multiple arguments and avenues for rethinking global
political economy in a time of turmoil and system transformation.
It will appeal to those interested in seeing new perspectives and
healthy heterodoxy in the study of political economy.
Contents: Introduction 1. New Odysseys in the Global Political Economy: Fundamentalist Contention and Economic Conflict Mary Ann Tétreault 2. Analytical Advances to Address New Dynamics V.Spike Peterson 3. Metageographical Moments: A Geohistorical interpretation of Embedded Statism and Globalization Peter J. Taylor 4. Creating Global Hegemony: Culture and the Market Barbara Jenkins 5. Globalization as Global History: Introducing a Dialectical Analysis Barry K. Gills 6. Mergers, Stagflation, and the Logic of Globalization Jonathan Nitzan 7. Global Dreams and Local Anger: From Structural to Acute Violence in a Globalizing World Peter Uvin 8. Globalization, "New" Trade Theory, and a Keynesian Reformist project Hartmut Elsenhans 9. Exploitation and Solidarity: Putting the Political Back into IPE Alejandro Colás 10. The Globalization of Human Affairs: A Reconsideration of Science, Political Economy, and World Order Clark Miller 11. Alternative Directions in the Study of the Global Political Economy Robert A. Denemark
Contents: Introduction Sita Ranchod-Nilsson and Mary Ann Tetreault 1. Nationalism Engendered: A Critique of Approaches to Nationalism, Linda Racioppi and Katherine O'Sullivan See 2. Writing Bodies on the Nation for the Globe, Zillah Eisenstein 3. Sexing Political Identities, V. Spike Peterson 4. The Politics of Gandhi's Feminism: Constructing Sitas Swaraj, Suresht Bald 5. Communalism, Nationalism and Gender: Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Hindu Right in India, Geeta Chowdhry 6. Ulster's Red Hand: Gender, Identity and Sectarian Conflict in Northern Ireland, Mary K. Meyer 7. From Subjects to Citizens: Women and the Nation in Kuwait, Mary Ann Tetreault and Hay al-Mughni 8. (Gender) Struggles for the Nation: Power, Agency and Representation in Zimbabwe, Sita Ranchod-Nilsson 9. Citizen-soldiers or Republican Mothers: Citizenship and Military Obligations in an Era of 'Choice', Cheryl Logan Sparks 10. Women Warriors: The Paradox and Politics of Israeli Women in Uniform, Edna Leny, References
Women, States and Nationalism counters this attitude and examines the many and contradictory ways in which women negotiate their places in 'the nation'. The volume includes theoretical essays that explore the multiple ways in which the very concept of 'nation' is based upon notions of family, sexuality and gender power which are often overlooked of downplayed by 'male-stream' scholarship. It gathers together an outstanding panel of feminist scholars and area studies specialists, who, through a series of focused case studies, analyse diverse issues which include; *gender and sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland *the paradox of Israeli women soldiers *women, civic duty and the military in the USA *the Hindu Right in India *power, agency and representation in Zimbabwe *political identity and heterosexism. This timely volume is a highly valuable resource for students and scholars of Nationalism, Internationalism Studies and Women's Studies.
Including contributions from leading scholars from Algeria, France,
Germany, India and the United States this book traces the rise and
turn to moderation of the New Cultural Identitarian Political
Movements, often labelled in the West as fundamentalists. Arguing
that culturally based ideologies are often the instruments, rather
than the motivating force though which segments of a rising middle
strata challenge entrenched elites the expert contributors trace
the rise of these movements to changes in their respective
countries' political economy and class structures. This approach
explains why, as a result of an ongoing contestation and recreation
of bourgeois values, the more powerful of these movements then tend
towards moderation. As Western countries realise the need to engage
with the more moderate wings of fundamentalist political groups
their rationale and aims become of increasing importance and so
academics, decision-makers and business people interested in South
Asia and the Muslim world will find this an invaluable account.
A sophisticated investigation of the shifting tides of
democratic governance in modern Kuwait from 1921 to the present
based on interviews both with political activists and members of
the political elite, "Stories of Democracy" sheds light on a wide
array of issues concerning Middle Eastern politics and democratic
institutions in general.
Mary Ann T?treault explores how various political factions have
sought to advance their own notions of Kuwaiti history and politics
through distinctive popular appeals: (1) pro-democracy forces
focusing on Kuwait's relationship to the universal values of the
democratic world around them, and (2) anti-democrats proffering
Arab and Muslim religious and cultural traditions. She explores how
such dramatic events as the suspension of the Kuwaiti constitution
in 1986 and the invasion by Iraq in 1990 occasioned major shifts in
the course of the democracy movement. The current running through
virtually all of the nation's political drama is the monolithic
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), used by the government as an
instrument of economic strength to safeguard sovereignty in the
absence of military might.
Partial Truths and the Politics of Community considers what happens
after feminists succeed in achieving social change or in founding
organizations dedicated to accomplishing their personal and social
goals. This collection of eighteen essays by scholars from the
fields of international relations and feminist studies explores the
theoretical dilemmas and practical politics of living with raised
consciousnesses in ""worlds of our own making."" The contributors
explore feminisms as dreams of human rights, as a cluster of
ideologies, and as a bounty of social practices set within
frameworks for tackling problems in nation-building and global
governance. In essays that illustrate the impact of feminist
concerns with the quality of education, the contributors offer
studies of homeschooling, of the education of impoverished girls in
rural Mexico, of sororities and their relation to female autonomy,
and of the teaching of prisoners by volunteers in county jails.
Other contributors call for a greater attention to the ecology of
social life, viewing society as a complex of individuals bound to
one another through webs of transactions and obligations. These
contributors recount examples from Northern Ireland, Poland, and
the United States in which such webs sometimes support and
sometimes strangle efforts to achieve human dignity and autonomy.
Evaluating progress made in the legal realm, other contributors
chart the opportunities and limitations of international and
domestic law as tools to advance and protect human rights. They
consider gender discrimination in universities and colleges, the
United Nations and its mixed record on women's issues, and the
effects of adding rape to the list of prosecutable war crimes. The
volume concludes with two works on how feminism supports democratic
constructions of science and religion, with results that
destabilize dominant institutions in both realms.
Economic and strategic power is not the exclusive province of
powerful, developed countries. Kuwait has used its main resource,
oil, to integrate itself into the world economy as an autonomous
actor rather than as a dependent commodity exporter. This daring
economic strategy enabled Kuwait to claim military support from
governments hosting its direct investments overseas in 1990-91
following its invasion by Iraq. Based on five years of research,
including interviews with more than 200 people, Dr. Tetreault's
book analyzes the development of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation
in the context of domestic, regional, and world politics. Contrary
to current thinking, she argues that multinational vertical
integration under state ownership can be an optimal strategy for
oil-exporting, developing countries, particularly those whose
resource endowments are otherwise highly limited. This book is
directed toward executives in natural resource industries, economic
and strategic planners in public and private institutions, and
those charged with the formulation and implementation of national,
international, and transnational economic policy; in addition, it
is of interest to academics specializing in political economy,
development, industrial organization, regional and domestic
politics, and international relations.
A look at more than a century of feminist activism around the world
Conscious Acts and the Politics of Social Change counters the
notion, widely propagated by antifeminist forces, that feminists
represent a group of socially deviant outsiders. In fifteen essays
that explore feminist projects to advance human freedom, social
activists and academic analysts find feminists to be typical
members of their society who promote social movements for
nonviolent change in law-abiding ways. Foiling the picture of
aberrance, they portray feminists as grandmothers demonstrating
quietly in city squares, mothers distributing "subversive"
literature from their babies' strollers, and pious women taking
issue with politicians who use religion to justify repressive
legislation. The contributors also contend that feminism has been a
strong force for building civil society and fighting oppression in
political and social systems throughout the world. The essays offer
a range of reports on feminist theory and activism, some of which
celebrate success stories, including the struggle of American women
who fight for suffrage, of Czechoslovaks who resist Communist
censorship, of Chilean women who want to end the oppressive
Pinochet regime by demanding an accounting of their "disappeared"
children. Other essays relate failures--the use of an organization
intended to provide assistance to Russian families to gain
publicity for its American director and to embezzle funds for her
local assistants, the clash among women's groups in Iowa that
contributed to the defeat of a state equal rights amendment. The
remaining essays consider the persistence of socially ambiguous
behavior such as lying, violence, cruelty, and discrimination.
Collectively the case studies provide opportunities to investigate
the characteristics and strategies that have affected positive
social change--and those that have not--with an eye toward
understanding how persons who want to initiate constructive social
change might do so with the resources at their disposal.
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